"Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans"

-- Dean Cavanagh

#Rap Quotes #Culture Quotes #West Quotes

“Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”
“I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.”
“Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.”
“I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.”

Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.
“Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.”
“The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.”
“The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.”

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